Weekly Weight:
I’m not going to dwell on my weekly Weigh-In this week, nor am I going to let it get me down – lets just say I’m now 12st 10lbs and am going to work hard to shift it! No motivation to exercise on the turbo over Christmas screwed me up! Beer ban in place.

This also meant Goal Unachieved.

Morning Commute:
Total Distance: 12.20 miles
Total Time: 44m 58s
Max Speed: 27.2mph
Avg Speed: 16.3mph
Max H/Rate: 183bpm
Avg H/Rate: 160bpm
Cadence: 84rpm

As Crimmey mentioned in the comments, my heart rate has been bugging me recently – going from a low average of the 140s up to 160s in the space of a month, and my max heart rate peaking at what it was when I first started cycling.

This time it’s a little different though as I am much much fitter. Puzzling I know, and its thanks to Crimmey that I will be taking a more serious look at it (sometimes if you ponder on something you think its just you, and you need someone elses eyes to notice that its not – plus, it proves he reads the posts :) )

Could it be the lack of cycling over Xmas (only 50 miles inc Turbo Trainer in just less than a month)? Could it be that I’ve damaged my body drinking every night last week? God knows! I feel no different? Curious and curiouser!

Anyway, I wasn’t expecting a similar journey to yesterday as people are getting used to driving on crap conditioned roads, but I needn’t have worried. People seemed again to be paying more attention bar one “posh car” driver (I don’t need to slander the model) who was more interested in picking their nose than looking at me signalling to pull into his lane for an approaching bend… Then the lady who was texting on her mobile phone as her car veered left whilst I was right behind ready to undertake (big enough gap!)…

Don’t think she appreciated me pulling up along side her and staring at her, but it took her a good 10 seconds of texting before she realised that I was there! Hope I got the camera angle right!

A “gentleman” also walked out on me on the corner where I fell off trying to miss the woman a couple of months ago.

Thats it for this morning.

Another Mini adventure.

Evening Commute:
Total Distance: 9.41 miles
Total Time: 50m 26s
Max Speed: 22.4mph
Avg Speed: 11.2mph
Max H/Rate: 183bpm
Avg H/Rate: 160bpm
Cadence: 82rpm

Urgh.

Set off without a care in the world but by a mile in I knew it was going to be bloody hard.

It was cold. My legs where dead. I couldn’t muster any energy to cycle. You can see this from my very slow Average Speed :(

To top it all off, I got off my bike to walk the last part in the snow and started feeling really dizzy and then a bloke seemed to give me some abuse from his car as he drove past. Don’t know why – was on a pavement pushing my bike – bizarre.

Now I need some food and sleep.

Total Commute Extras:
Total Ascent: 778ft